Stratocracy

Myriad Reality

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Just like you are now. It's hard to trick me.

@Etcetera

Assuming I want to manipulate you is something that would only be true if I were aiming to use you. While you may not believe me when I say I don’t, I can promise you that you’ll find have no reason to even want to. All I want is to see people free.
*Holds my hands out in front of me, palms up*
If this conversation has reinforced anything for me, it’s that I don’t believe you are free. Not yet.

Myriad Reality

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He called me a pet. A toy. I don't mean a thing to him at all.

@Etcetera

A lie simply by metric of how much time he spent on you. It’s another one of the million ways I’m sure he manipulated you.
*Sighs*
You can’t take a word out of his mouth at face value. Truly.

Myriad Reality

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You think that. That's not what he told me.

@Etcetera

I know that. Because you can’t count on anything he ever said to you or did to you, as anything except a means to manipulate you. His words mean nothing.

Myriad Reality

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Nnnnnn—I want to find a way to live that makes him wish he did not choose me. Real spite. Then I can die like you all want me to.

@Etcetera

The way a person like him thinks? The only way to make him regret choosing you is to prove that you are stronger than what he did to you. Letting it hurt you until your last breath, means he wins.

Myriad Reality

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*Squeezes my cheeks with one hand and looks up, considering the suggestion*
Mmmmm~...

@Etcetera

The greatest service anyone could ever do for a guy like that is to keep their memory alive. We can all turn our backs on his place in history, together.

Myriad Reality

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*Looks at you with an indecipherable look*
He made me. I'm still here.

@Etcetera

If you’re all that’s left of him, then do you want to know the ultimate way to spite him? Let him be forgotten. Stop living your life with him in mind, and let him go.

Myriad Reality

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*Shrugs and fractures the cup into several pieces and twirls it in the air, splashing hot liquid on and around us*
I thought I knew what he meant for me to be. I found out it was wrong. Now I'm sort of lost.

@Etcetera

*Wipes my face clear of it*
He was a lot of things I could say, but I will highlight the fact that he was a smart guy who knew what the consequences of what he was doing would be… Let me ask you, because I do not know myself. Is he gone?

Myriad Reality

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I do what I do since I want him to hate me. It's not that hard.

@Etcetera

Making him hate you by becoming what he wanted? There’s definitely a gap in my understanding, there.

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*sighs and looks intently at @Stratocracy*

I definitely don't see like that's the case... she keeps messing up! Still!

@The Multiverse

You don’t fix years worth of hurt on a moment’s notice. It takes time.

Myriad Reality

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*Snaps and refills my hot chocolate*
Help how you see it. When they decide I should be this way or that, it makes me mad.

@Etcetera

I’ve been in your mind, you forget that I know that isn’t true. I think that you do what you do because it’s all you know, and that being the case is the result of what someone else wanted for you.
*Goes to set my empty mug on the nearest table*

Myriad Reality

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You mean you want to own me.

@Etcetera

*Shakes my head*
If I helped you get better, but it meant I never got to see you or talk to you again, then it’d be well worth it.